New York (CNN Business) Tucked away in the more than 5,000-page long Covid-19 stimulus bill is a new law that severely punishes streamers that pirate large amounts of copyrighted content.
You probably have nothing to worry about: The "Protecting Lawful Streaming Act," which was introduced earlier this month by Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, doesn't target casual internet users. The law specifies that it doesn't apply to people who use illegal streaming services or "individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works."
Rather, it's focused on "commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services" that make money from illegally streaming copyrighted material.
Tillis said that this practice costs the US economy nearly $30 billion yearly.
"This commonsense legislation was drafted with the input of creators, user groups, and technology companies and is narrowly targeted so that only criminal organizations are punished and that no individual streamer has to worry about the fear of prosecution," he wrote in a statement
pfaustino on December 23rd, 2020 at 04:37 UTC »
There needs to be a new law that limits the shit you can sneak into a bill. Especially things that have nothing to do with the main bill.
Rude_Charity2109 on December 23rd, 2020 at 04:35 UTC »
Someone should propose a bill that states all future bills will never have any addons and side perks.
nova9001 on December 23rd, 2020 at 03:40 UTC »
I think the takeaway here is that there's a 5,000+ pages bill and somehow these senators only had a few hours to review it and then vote on it.
Isn't the worrying part here that US senators voted on a bill they know nothing about?